A company called City Detect is outfitting municipalities with cameras to give homes a "blight score," effectively turning a whole city into an HOA.
  • tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 days

    The engineers behind these things need to be heavily blacklisted. “Oh yeah, Justin. He was one of the software engineers behind the garbage truck cameras. Toss his resume in the trash. Erica worked for Flock, toss hers too.”

    Employers are already doing this, but I’d love to see it become more prevalent.

    • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
      20 days

      You’d have to make engineer a protected title for that and enforce membership and chartership with your locally recognised engineering institutions to allow working under the title. They do that in Queensland Australia. It’s not enforced in our other states, which is odd given Queensland is Australia’s Florida …

      Getting a job as an engineer in the UK was hard work because every ridiculous job and it’s dog was claiming to be an engineering role. The guy terminating a wall socket for your internet connection: telecoms engineer apparently. Rough gig for having burnt 5 years at university …

      • Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish
        20 days

        I’d like this but for the news. Want to say your broadcast is news? It has to adhere to factual standards then. Otherwise it’s entertainment.

  • ivanovsky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 days

    Don’t know if it’s these “AI cameras”, but my garbage company started uploading videos of my “violations” to their portal to justify charging me more (bin was open a few inches a couple times). They have video of them picking up the bin (showing my car plates and house in the back), and also of the bin contents from another camera after they dump it into the truck.

    I can only assume they’re working on the “threw a non-recyclable item in recycle bin” logic so they can charge more protect the environment.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 days

      To clock: to register on a mechanical recording device

      Code violations: things about a property that do not meet standards according to local ordinances

      • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19 days

        Wow thank you lol. I’m a native English speaker but I never would have read that headline that way.

        I was imagining some bizarre HoA rules that like, fined people for not updating their microwave for daylight savings time or something.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      20 days

      Nah, a neighboring city has ordinance written with aesthetics in mind too. Like, it’s in the city code that your front yard landscaping has to be congruent with the aesthetic of the street landscaping.

      It’s absolute insanity.

      Edit: For the actual text

      Entry areas, access easements, and driveways shall be landscaped to create a feeling of identification and continuity of plant materials related to the plantings around the buildings and parking areas. The primary entrances to the multi-family development, defined for this section as the entrances from public roadways, shall have landscaped areas on either side of the entrance. This landscape area shall be a triangle beginning at a point where the back of the sidewalk and the driveway intersect and running a distance of twenty feet parallel with the street, and fifteen feet from the back of the sidewalk along the driveway, and diagonally connecting the two lines. These areas may be utilized as rain gardens.